2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200m Butterfly at the 2010 Short Course Worlds
Dates	19 December 2010
Competitors	44
Winning time	1:51.56
Medalists
Chad le Clos   South Africa   Kaio Almeida   Brazil   László Cseh   Hungary

Main article: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)

The Men's 200 Butterfly at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was swum on 19 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 44 individuals swam in the preliminary heats in the morning, with the top-8 finishers advancing to the final that evening.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were:

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
WR	Kaio Almeida	Brazil	1:49.11	Stockholm	10 November 2009
CR	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	1:51.05	Manchester	13 April 2008

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	6	1	László Cseh (HUN)	1:52.81	Q
2	6	8	Chad le Clos (RSA)	1:52.91	Q
3	1	6	Wu Peng (CHN)	1:53.25	Q
4	4	5	Kaio Almeida (BRA)	1:53.26	Q
4	5	7	Bobby Bollier (USA)	1:53.26	Q
6	5	3	Jayden Hadler (AUS)	1:53.27	Q
7	6	5	Chris Wright (AUS)	1:53.52	Q
8	4	3	Marcin Cieślak (POL)	1:53.76	Q
9	6	4	Paweł Korzeniowski (POL)	1:53.77
10	5	8	Shaune Fraser (CAY)	1:53.80
11	6	6	Duarte Mourão (POR)	1:53.82
12	4	4	Joeri Verlinden (NED)	1:53.86
13	5	4	Dinko Jukić (AUT)	1:53.92
14	5	6	Tyler Clary (USA)	1:54.41
15	4	6	Leonardo de Deus (BRA)	1:54.43
16	6	3	Omar Pinzón (COL)	1:54.64
17	4	2	Robert Žbogar (SLO)	1:54.73
18	5	1	Hsu Chi-Chieh (TPE)	1:55.03
19	6	7	Dávid Verrasztó (HUN)	1:55.06
20	5	2	Simon Sjödin (SWE)	1:55.21
21	4	1	Ioannis Drymonakos (GRE)	1:55.87
22	6	2	Jan Šefl (CZE)	1:56.25
23	5	5	Gal Nevo (ISR)	1:56.66
24	1	3	Alon Mandel (ISR)	1:56.67
25	3	2	Velimir Stjepanović (SRB)	1:57.18
26	4	7	Nuno Quintanilha (POR)	1:57.61
27	3	4	Norbert Trudman (SVK)	1:59.26
28	2	5	Mauricio Fiol (PER)	1:59.45
29	3	1	Marawan Hellal (EGY)	1:59.49
30	2	4	Grant Beahan (ZIM)	1:59.79
31	4	8	Andres Montoya (COL)	1:59.94
32	3	8	Javier Hernández (HON)	1:59.99
33	3	5	Yousef Alaskari (KUW)	2:03.24
34	3	6	Pedro Miguel Pinotes (ANG)	2:05.06
35	2	1	Lim Duan Le Kenneth (SIN)	2:08.39
36	2	7	Neil Agius (MLT)	2:10.39
37	2	2	Ali Al Kaabi (UAE)	2:10.69
38	2	3	Nuno Miguel Rola (ANG)	2:11.10
39	2	6	Sofyan El Gadi (LBA)	2:19.06
40	2	8	Anderson Lim Chee Wei (BRU)	2:20.51
–	1	4	Chen Weiwu (CHN)	DNS
–	1	5	Clément Lefert (FRA)	DNS
–	3	3	Alexander Broberg Skeltved (NOR)	DNS
–	3	7	Jason Dunford (KEN)	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	5	Chad le Clos (RSA)	1:51.56
	6	Kaio Almeida (BRA)	1:51.61
	4	László Cseh (HUN)	1:51.67
4	1	Chris Wright (AUS)	1:51.85
5	3	Wu Peng (CHN)	1:51.92
6	8	Marcin Cieślak (POL)	1:53.09
7	2	Bobby Bollier (USA)	1:53.61
7	7	Jayden Hadler (AUS)	1:53.61